You are moving fast. Your calendar is booked solid, meetings are back-to-back, tasks are flowing, and your team is cranking out hours. From the inside of the machine, it looks like a high-performing engine. But ask yourself the hard question: Are we moving toward the goal line or just accelerating in the wrong direction?
decision making
Scale and Pivot: How Hard Decisions Shape Business Evolution
A conversation with an entrepreneur and EOS implementer on scaling from $10M to $100M, the bold pivots required to evolve business models, and why the decisions you avoid asking are often holding you back.
Eliminate Distraction Debt: A CEO’s Guide to Reclaiming Strategic Capacity
The Problem: For many established, mid-market companies, that make it to the eight-year mark the greatest barrier to scaling isn’t a lack of opportunity — it’s the accumulation of Distraction Debt. Founders and management teams often find themselves trapped in the operational whirlwind, where growth serves only to increase complexity rather than impact. This results […]
The CEO Evolution: Re-Engineering Your Role to Unlock 10x Value
Starting the conversation: TheIf your job as CEO hasn’t changed in three years, your company might be outgrowing you. Jess Dewell, Red Direction, Christy Maxfield, Purpose First Advisors, and Dean Barta, Barta Business Group, talk candidly about you being the bottleneck holding your business growth back. To 10x your business, reassess your role as CEO, […]
Leading Through Uncharted Territory: Lessons for CEOs in Fast-Changing Markets
Starting the conversation: Yesterday’s playbook is useless for tomorrow’s problems. Smart companies evolve their people, keep clarity around priorities, and navigate uncertainty and grow. PeopleCap Advisors Co-Founders Meg Crosby, Principal, and Howard Cleveland, Leadership Coach and Confidante, share how to lead through uncharted territory in quickly changing markets. The Gauntlet of Growth for sustainable growth […]
Lessons to Carry Forward Into the New Year
Reflection is more than a process; it’s a profound tool that allows us to understand our experiences better —acknowledging and learning from the peaks of our successes and the valleys of our challenges.
Time as Your Ultimate Advantage: Planning for Relevance in a Rapid World
Creating time is a path to engage in conscious adaptation with business levers, to build a growth strategy that ensures your company’s future.
The Real Reason Smart Leaders Don’t Take Action — And How to Overcome It
Discover why your growth strategy isn’t just for good times — it’s your secret weapon in the storm. And, unlock the collective brainpower of your team instead of facing the abyss alone.
Change as a Chance for Sustainable Growth
Starting the conversation: To stay hyper-focused on your goals, there are key principles which lead to remarkable achievement both professionally and personally. Aim small, miss small is a tenet of Justin Goodbread, CEO at Financially Simple, as he shares his insights on the results of the relentless pursuit of success. Belief in yourself is the […]
LEAD Model for Better Decision-Making and Problem-Solving
Owning a business, managing a department, and striving to do our best are ongoing challenges. Distractions constantly divert our focus, demand our time, and compete with our primary responsibilities and tasks that are the best use of our efforts.
Breaking Down Diversity of Thought and Innovation
Starting the conversation: Trust your gut! Your instincts are a culmination of experiences and silent calculations. When it nudges you, take a moment to pause and listen — you might uncover insights you hadn’t consciously realized. Elizabeth Bieniek, Author, Speaker, and Consultant, shares her thoughts on how to leverage the diversity of thought to find […]
UNCHARTED: Long-Term Vision: Insights into Business Growth Strategies
Starting the conversation: How do you make decisions when you are weighing speed versus strategy? Making informed decisions is something that directly relates to our risk tolerance and confidence in ourselves. Amanda Cromar, Camanda in Chief at COMtuity, candidly shares about her journey to pause for reflection and what it really takes to get people […]
The Adaptable Entrepreneur’s Guide: Measuring What Matters and Mastering Risk
Starting the conversation: Dynamic goal-setting and decision-making support the necessary action needed for achievement. Uncertainty is normal, and at times heightened by what is going on within your world — in addition to what may be happening nationally and globally. Shaping your risk comfort zone will help you navigate during times of high pressure and […]
Balancing Vulnerability and Strength in Business Leadership
Starting the conversation: Human behavior is ever-evolving and very dynamic. It takes courage to connect and share, really share, what we’ve gone through and learned from those experiences. Steve Utech, CEO and Founder of illumyx, discusses how being real and open make you a stronger leader. Every aspect of your life has you in it. […]
How to Scale Business by Empowering Others
Starting the conversation: In a world where we can access information to learn anything we want, goal achievement will come from what you do with that knowledge. Tom Schwab, Founder and Chief Evangelist Officer at InterviewValet, talks about making the most of every day to do the work you are most passionate about. Both in […]
How To Beat Leadership Loneliness and Reach Your Goals
Starting the conversation: Do you embrace the following three tips to be successful? In conversation with Jess Dewell, Dr. Yaniv Zaid, CEO and Speaker at Dr. Persuasion, shares real world examples about how to reach success by being mentally strong, selling the problem before the solution, and building a direct community of peers to avoid […]















